to bill moyers, the legendary broadcaster and host of "moyers & company."ier this month, they air the documentary "state of conflict: north carolina." he has won over 30 emmy awards and is a founding organizer of , press secretary for lyndon johnson, his most recent book is "bill moyers journal: the conversation continues." welcome back to democracy now! great to have you with us. quite the report and it is not even the whole thing. you go on to talk about the whole issue of voting rights. yes, because of this new far right government -- and these are not your father's republicans. they are really right wing republicans. they went after voting rights, one of their first objectives they fulfilled when they took power. they now have the most restrictive voting rights in the country. a very complicated process of , they reduced it did -- redistricted in a way that packs african-americans into three districts. the justice department has challenged the north carolina state voting laws, but they are designed to perpetuate the rule and to make it harder for the el

thank you. >> i think that we all look forward to that moyer lee, administration. and finally, our good friend and dynamic leader, the executive director of the port of san francisco, monique moyer. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> okay, so raise your hands, how many of you would like to be me today? i am so humble and honored, what a great fortune to land my term right on the 150th year because the one thing that i will tell you about being 150 years old if you realize that your time is really short and insignificant, and if i were to dare to count how many port directors there have been before and how many there will be after it will become more of a second time, but, i get to be here with all of you and so many of you who have been here at this water front for decades, all of you from fisherman's wharf thank you for coming today, because of you it is our water front that has evolved ahead of everywhere else in the world this is a perfect place to celebrate. because here we have a little bit of something of everything, in fisherman's wharf. it has been part of the p

. >>> this week on moyers & company, we conclude our conversation with astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson. >> you have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have a scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. this requires a level of -- a base level of science literacy that i don't think we have achieved yet >> announcer: funding is provided by anne gummawitz, carnegie, the ford foundation, working with visionary rees on the front change of worldwide, supporting organizations whose miss is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the john d. and katherine t. macarthur foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation, and by mutual of america. >>> welcome. for two weeks now the astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson and i have been in pursuit of dark energy. we expect gravity to be slowing down the universe. the opposite is happening. we don't know what is causing it. >> and dark matter. >> we count for one-sixth of the forces of gravity that we see in the universe. there is no

>> this week on moyers & company astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson on science, god and the universe. >> if god is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, which we're tackling these mysteries one by one. if you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, god has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- anne gumowitz, encouraging the renewal of democracy. carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, m

many department heads who are with us today from the department of public works, madv nuru, monique moyer from the mort, nick equal a chan from department of resource he. huey from department of building infence. also want to thank steve, the mayor's chief of staff, controller ben rosenfield, our budget analyst harvey rose, and i believe i also want to tiectiontion a moment to recognize our district attorney george gas cone, as well as i am fro i believe we have two chiefs here and many other men and women in blue. fire chief white and greg sur. mr. mayor, did i miss anybody? >> [inaudible]. >> okay. with that it is my privilege to introduce my friend and someone who represents the third branch of government, our judicial branch, the honorable cynthia lee who is the presiding judge of the superior court of california here in city and county of san francisco and she will administer the oath of office to supervisor tang. >> supervisor tang, would you raise your right hand, please? ask repeat after me. i, katy tackv do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the uni

that you offer to the port in terms of your comments and i also want to thank, our executive director moyer for what she does to get us all prepared and briefed along with the staff and so i am very much looking forward to the coming term and i want to thank you for the honor that you have placed in me. and i would like to open it up for public comment, if there is any. seeing none. okay, do we have plaques? >> yes, thank you. >> if i may, congratulations, president katz, and i will have to get my tongue around that, so congratulations and that is terrific news and my congratulations to all of the staff and president adams that may motivate him to not miss meeting careful what happens or you will get elected when you are not here. >> he told me that he would not turn it down. >> good because i am hoping that he is not going to be taken back. but i do want to echo a lot of the words that have been said already. on behalf of all of the port staff and especially on my own behalf and that of amy because our commission secretary. and it has been an incredible two years working with the two of yo

. >>> this week on moyers & company, we conclude our conversation with astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson. >> you have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have a scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. this requires a level of -- a base level of science literacy that i don't think we have achieved yet >> announcer: funding is provided by anne gummawitz, carnegie, the ford foundation, working with visionary rees on the front change of worldwide, spo

courtney kealy has moyer. >> an investigation led to the release of this video. it showed one inmate at the idaho correctional center beating another. while no one, not even the guards bothers to stop the fight. >> the beating went on so long that inmate who was attacking him sat down and took a break to catch his breath. ap reporter has been aggressing the correction system in idaho for the past seven years. we found that the idaho correctional center had a rate three times higher than all other prisons in the state. the correctional corporation of america runs the idaho correctional center. the only privatery run prison in the state. inmates and prison guards nicknamed it the gladiator school. though the fight was visible o on surveillance cameras it took nearly ten minutes for guards to step in. the beaten inmate substained permanent brain damage. cca later settled a lawsuit with the family. one of has been filed against the company. but release of surveillance video didn't prompt any major changes. then in 2 0 12, they billed the state for 3,000 hours for whi

. >> this week on "moyers & company," neil degrasse tyson on the new "cosmos" and our dark universe. >> science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- anne gumowitz. carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society.

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♪ >> this week on moyers & company astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson on science, god and the universe>> if god is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, which we're tackling these mysteries one by one. if you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, god has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- anne gumowitz, encouraging the renewal of democracy. carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote comi

>> this week on "moyers & company," neil degrasse tyson on the new "cosmos" and our dark universe. >> science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- anne gumowitz. carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that'

achieving health care reform, i remember one of your mentors bill moyers used to say, he talked abouthen medicare passed in 1965, that was more embattled than this. johnson had the sense if he got it in a couple of years, everybody would assume it would be that way forever. in terms of domestic policy, the health-care bill is the most important thing and avoiding the carnage of the great recession. he has brought troops back from these two wars that have been going on for almost a decade and any of the things in the texture in american life for improving. i think that is big case to make. >> the president said he wanted make a difference when he was first running in 2007, he wanted to make a difference. he did not want to be another photograph, another portrait on the wall. what does he have to do to become that kind of president? >> i think it is the right impulse, first of all. you do not want to be a president dreaming of becoming millard fillmore. that is what he was talking about. when you have that power, you want to use it to make lives better for people. i think the health-car

i trust his judgment moyer than i trust james clapper or keith alexander or dianne feinstein as to what the public should know about the programs nsa is doing based on what we have learned so far. there is no way we would find out about that any other way than through snowden and i hope there are others waiting to tell us of abuses. but there is a better way to find out this material than to have leakers take their lives into their hands or face a life of exile. or like chelsea manning, prison. that would be for a new church committee looking for a john win investigation of the intelligence committee belter than church managed to do it. his reforms consisted of intelligence meets. church led to the intelligence court. that has failed. it has been a rubber stamp operating in secret. what we have to have is this a panel picked by congress basically in the nsa reporting to congress and the judiciary and nsa with full access and full clearance. people who have never been hired by the intelligence community in the past. we need in other words, genuine oversight for the first time in a way th

he discusses his momentum moyer. "duty: memoirs of a secretary at war." in the book, mr. gates, who served as secretary of defense under president george w. bush and president obama, talks about his management of the wars in afghanistan and iraq and shares stories about his relationship with the white house and congress. [applause] >> secretary gates, i want to thank you for being here, especially in light of the fact you recently had an injury. i know you're making a robust recovery, but having to wear a neck brace is surely complicated your getting here, and we thank you for making that effort. >> until i became secretary of defense, i had never broken a bone or had a surgery. february of 2008, i fell on the ice and broke this shoulder in three places, ten months later, putting a snow plow blade on a tractor, i pulled my tendon off this arm. my security guards came to the conclusion that al qaeda was no risk to me at all compared to myself. and before we start, i'd like to say it is good to be back here at the center, and to apologize to the audience on my right for not

and a cheeflg healthcare reform as embattled as it is right now, i member one of your mentor, bill moyers to say, he talked about how when medicare passed in 1965 that was more e embattled than this and johnson had a sense if he got that in and stayed policy for a couple of years then everybody would assume it would be that way forever. in terms of domestic policy the healthcare bill is the most important thing, of course avoiding the carnage of the great recession. he has brought troops back from these two wars that have been going on for nearly a decked and as he argued many things in the texture of american life are improving so i think that is the case he would make. >> rose: doris, i think the president said to you he wants to make a difference way back when he was first running in 2007 they he wanted to be a president that made a difference, he didn't want to be another photograph on the wall, another portrait on the wall. what does he have to do to have become that kind of president? >> well, i think it is theight impulse, first of all, you don't want a president to be dreaming of

wanted to make it a great system, to their credit this 1967 -- and we have this in the book with bill moyer's conversations with lbj -- okay, they can't do the stuff that's commercially successful, let's have it do the edgy stuff, bring in people who are cut out of the picture, minority groups, young people, artists, dissidents. let it be sort of the provocative agent of our culture. but, you know, they tried that for about a week, and then people in congress said what are you doing these exposes on banks' red lining practice -- >> yeah, the selling of the pentagon. >> and it was enough of that. we just want a tepid, lame broadcasting that doesn't take viewers away and also doesn't offend us and do anything that's too racy. so you got dinosaur shows and classical, you know, animal shows. >> and yanni at the acropolis. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> high-end stuff too. >> somehow c-span ended up as a part of the system. maybe we should give a nod to that. >> and that was a victory, one of the concessions they made to have their cable monopoly, and you pay for c-span accordingly was we

i got involved in desegregating movie theaters and helping you may remember reverend moyer in delaware and herman holloway organized voter registration drives coming out of black churches on sunday figuring how we were going to move. but you know what? dr. king, if you remember -- you all do -- in '65 wrote from the jail in selma, he said voting is the foundationstone for political action. and ever since that year the voting rights act of 1965 has been the mortar protecting and fortifying that foundation stone. and as you know, the voting rights act was one of the most difficult civil rights bills to ever be won. the right of african-americans to vote, all americans to vote is guaranteed by the 15th amendment since 1870, but it was consistently thwarted, mostly by intimidation and insidious practices like the poll tax, the grandfather clause, selectively enforced literacy tests and so much more. but these practices, they persisted and persisted and persisted. they were protected for the better part of a century at the highest level, these practices to keep us from voting. nowhere more

. >> reporter: for some the moyer work the better. >> the harder i work the more fun i seem to have.ween work and life is also a matter of health. >> it's easier said than done, though, to unplug and turn everything off. i look at our kids. whether it's work or not, they are on -- i wonder about the implications on the brain long term, emily. >> it's got to have some effect on a brain. >> it has to make us more add. >> looking for that stimulation. it is hard. we got the information from that story pointed out that it took us 200 years to get unions to have a 40-hour workweek. smartphones five years to take that away from us. we do feel compelled to respond to the e-mails we get or answer the phone. >> i think you have to divide people into groups. i think probably us around the table who like it and want it and love on the fact you're not disconnected any more. 2013 people who don't like it and forced to do it because of their jobs. the overarching point is the people have to do it. in the world wages are not going up you have to work more hours and more weekends. >> that's true but

>> yes, he has a great shot at the gold medal and scott moyer.nd may the best skater win. >> and sunday you'll be participating in the skating spectacular. what is that like being with other olympians. >> it's so much fun but to be honest it's quite distracting because you're trying to skate and you see the gymnasts out there and you see o lilympians there and live musical guests and olympic hosts. >> we wish you the best on that. we want to mention that you were going to skate here this morning. >> i was going too. there was a lot of snow. i offered to help. >> you can catch that skating spectacular on sunday, 1:00 p.m. eastern right here on nbc and the olympic action gets underway on february 6th. >> we do want to get another check of the weather from al. >> all right. we're going to take a look and show you what's going on as far as your weekend is concerned. we've got this secondary storm coming in, this next one. that's going to be bringing snow from upstate new york all the way back to the rockies over the next 48 hours. look at these snowf